Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-10-01
farmer wore a broad and substantial
smile in token of a auecassfnl year


smile in token Of 3 successful year.
: Ihe excursion trans which have run
between Yankton and Mitchell during
the fair have been taken eff and will run
between Sioux Falls and Sioux City
next week 80 carry people to the corn
! palace.
The work of putting in the turbine
! wheel at the pressed brick yards has
been resumed after q lay off of q week
by the workmen. 1t is probable that the
city will know what toe water will do
before long.
Tue east bound Milwaukee passenger
train this afternoon WAS loaded with
toughs from the Mitchell fair going to
Sioux City, to be present during the
corn palace week and take In the IN.
sophisticated.
The O~hantauqua class of SO will eu-
terrain the members of other classes at
the home of Mrs M. e. Sargent Tues
! day evening, Oct. 4th. All persons wish
t ing to join the circle are cordially in
vited to attend.
A Mitchell special says that there is
no prospect that Governor Church will
recede from his position relative to the
Yankton insane hospital matter. 1t
doesn't look that way, Neither will the
trustees recede. Governor Church went
to Sioux Falls from Mitchell.
. The rainfall for September; as regis
tered Of the wsather office, WAS 6.07
: inches, which is 3.75 inches more than
]. the average for September. Up to date
the temperature of the year has been
. about the average. At q late hour this
afternoon the barometer is reported
a very low, whlch is considered an indlos-
o tion OF rain.
t On Thursday the ferry boat Josie T..
K was compelled to come to anchor in
the middle of ths raging Missouri. a
part Of the machinery known as the
. wrist pin snapped IN halves and the boat
was unable to proceed. A trip to shore
to have. the pin repaired was made in o
small boat and after repairs the boat be-
gan running again.
Yesterday afternoon the teachers in
stitute closed and most of the teachers
have gone home, but to-day Superin-
tendent Hills has been busy conducting
examinations. A teachers association
wis organized yesterday afternoon, bu,
the officers elected are only temporary
Prof. E. W. Woody, was elected chair,
man, aud Miss Olive Person, secretary
The Merchants hotel changed proprie
f. tors to-day, M. ]. Walker, who has hac
:. the hotel since March, having sold ou'
to WI, Walters of Syracuse, New York
Mr.. Walker will make Ysnkton his
home for the present and it is possible
or all time. Mr.. Walters aud his ener-
jetio wife enter vigorously upon th.
management of the Merchants and vii
sustain Its old-time reputation.
A farmer came into the city this morn
ing with a report OF railroad operation
east of the city. He said that the Mil.
waukee track was being laid from
point near Wagoner's brick yard acros
: Refner's field, back OF j. r. Hanson
house and thence back to the Jim rive
= to the Milwaukee bridge. What he sas
was the surveying outfit of the Yankto,
and Sioux Falls railway.
The big circus which was mentioned
yesterday WAS held in Lynoh's barn
Ne located in block %, lower Yaukton. thi
:, r. rouh,rnd With Aha oiyouu
I is m~enagerie which contains a singing
9 dog, and two cages Of snakes. Thu
3 snakes were charmed with o club an
are very Submissive. The circus com
psny now has q cash capital of sixt'
cents on hand, but one-third OF this Roe
: to the star actors as salaries. Talen
comes high, but they must have it.
F. Hurlburt, formerly porter at tb
Merchants hotel, was arrested to-da
upon order OF Mayor Teller for y%lolstlri
the city quarantine laws. Hurlburt re
Gently visited house in north Ysnkto
in search Of waiter girls, at which nous
a case of scarlet fever had recently ext
ted, and induced q girl TO leave til
house and 60 to work. Hurlburt had n
Q business to enter q%uarantined promise
and he further violated the ordinance b
OIL inducing the girl, who had been sick,
leave. The authorities express o dete,
re- mination to apply the law to ell persoz
y. who violate it and with this object
og view are watching the field closely.
OF J. r. Mann writes from Oaklan
California, under date of September 2
lis that Charles Sebring, q former resideE
sw of Yankton, was probably fatally ipiure
ct his fathers ranch, five miles frol
". Oakland on the goth of September. E
nil was attacked in a box stall by o Perch,
ron stallion and terribly mangled. Du
~. ing the encounter MIR. Sebrlng, who is
va powerful young man, twice knocked Il
stallion down and finally made his escai
from the stall with his left arm BROKE
In two places, the flesh stripped from b
back and shoulders and a serious wouI
IN his chest. 1t was thought that
ng could not recover though he had you
OF and q powerful constitution in his fave
re- Mr.. Sebring was q school boy in Yani
ton and viii be well remembered by Il
las young population Of our city.
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his Notice; The CITY Taxes are no